restrained
I'm definitely more humble than I used to be, more contained.
The painter works with a quiet, contained palette of soft blues and greys.
It is striking how much more contained and controlled their music has become over the past decade.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Self-control and moderation
anti-pleasure
ascetically
asceticism
be in command (of yourself)idiom
boundary
go steady on somethingidiom
golden mean
grip
imperviously
mind over matteridiom
puritanism
restrained
restrainedly
restraint
restrict
stint
temperance
undignified
unsensational
willpower

Examples of contained

contained
The rules that were removed, were simply those with the smallest probability (irrespective of the nonterminals they contained).
The information contained in evidence tables may vary, depending on what kinds of studies are being used and also on the scope of the assessment.
Although cell size in the cotyledons was not significantly lower in the spaceflight material than in the ground control, the cotyledons contained substantially fewer cells.
Unlike the kernel estimates, these "variance maps" contained no systematic spatiotemporal structure; and scatterplots of the standard deviations against the mean values revealed no correlation.
From the first 100 complete and intelligible utterances of each speech sample, only those utterances which contained a lexical verb were selected.
The proportion of topic utterances that contained the experimental label was also examined.
Duplex-duplex coupling linkages are more precise, but this simulation contained no close linkages of this type.
Only one of the four options was identical to the target (the other three contained minor differences).
Each file contained four repetitions of the prime-plus-target word sequence.
Such residential buildings contained from a few to twenty or more apartments, with the average being around eight to ten dwellings each.
However, the majority of the planks stop short of this boundary and so remain contained within the enclosing darkness.
The most important genetically engineered crops that have been introduced contained genes encoding insect resistance and herbicide tolerance; they were soybean, maize, cotton and canola.
However, very few of them contained musical instruments, but rather electronic equipment.
Furthermore, in specimens with coarctation, the proximal aortic arch contained fewer elastic lamellae than specimens without coarctation.
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